Annecy 2017: Award Winners
With this year’s edition of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival having concluded, here is the full list of the 2017 award winners, beginning with the festival’s Special Prizes given out on Friday June 16th .
SPECIAL PRIZES
Festivals Connexion Award
Nothing Happens
Uri Kranot, Michelle Kranot
DANSK TEGNEFILM, MIYU PRODUCTIONS
Denmark, France
Junior Jury Award for a Graduation Film
What a Peaceful Day
Eden (Kai-Hsun) Chan
TAIPEI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
Taiwan
Junior Jury Award for a Short Film
Valley of White Birds > La Vallée des oiseaux blancs
Cloud Yang
WOLF SMOKE ANIMATION STUDIO
China
Young Audience Award
Hedgehog’s Home > La Maison du hérisson
Eva Cvijanović
ONF, BONOBOSTUDIO
Canada, Croatia
FIPRESCI Award
Negative Space
Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata
IKKI FILMS, MANUEL CAM
France
Best Original Music Award for a Short Film
Radio Dolores
Katariina Lillqvist, Kusti Vuorinen
FILM COOPERATIVE CAMERA CAGLIOSTRO
Finland
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
Petit Vampire > Little Vampire
Joann Sfar
AUTOCHENILLE PRODUCTION
France
“CANAL+ Creative Aid” Award for a Short Film
L’Ogre > The Ogre
Laurène Braibant
PAPY3D PRODUCTIONS
France
André-Martin Award for a 2016 French Feature Film
La Jeune Fille sans mains
Sébastien Laudenbach
LES FILMS SAUVAGES, PELLEAS FILMS
France
André-Martin Award for a French Short Film
Nothing Happens
Uri Kranot, Michelle Kranot
DANSK TEGNEFILM, MIYU PRODUCTIONS
Denmark, France
André-Martin Special Distinction for a French Short Film
Negative Space
Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata
IKKI FILMS, MANUEL CAM
France
City of Annecy Award
Maacher Jhol > Le Curry de poisson
Abhishek Verma
JAMUURA
India
HONORARY CRISTAL
This year’s Honorary Cristal was awarded at the start of Saturday’s Closing Ceremony to the prolific Swiss director Georges Schwizgebel by Annecy Artistic Director Marcel Jean, in tandem with a surprise screening of the director’s short Erlkönig (Erlking) accompanied by a live piano accompaniment by the director’s son Louis Schwizgebel-Wang.
For the fifth year in a row, the Annecy Festival awarded the Honorary Cristal to a leading figure in the animation world. This year, it’s not only an exceptional filmmaker that we’ve crowned, but a friend as well. The Swiss director Georges Schwizgebel has had his films in competition at the Annecy Festival fourteen times. Georges has been a member of the jury at the Festival twice and two of his shorts, The Ride to the Abyss and 78 Turns, are included in the list of the 100 best animation films that we published in 2006.Georges Schwizgebel is an animation guru, an artisan of precision and an artist who has inspired many young animators. His style can be described as baroque and swirling, characterised by a confident brushstroke and a resolutely postmodern approach with his relationship to history and art.
-Marcel Jean
OFFICIAL PRIZES
The Closing Ceremony also saw the various juries of the 41st International Animation Film Festival reveal the winners from Annecy 2017! Out of 216 films across all categories nominated in the official competition, 17 awards were given out on Saturday 17th June.
Photo: G. Piel/CITIA
TV AND COMMISSIONED FILMS
Commissioned Films Jury Award
Moby “Are You Lost in the World Like Me?”
Steve Cutts
STEVE CUTTS
USA, UNITED KINGDOM
Cristal for a Commissioned Film
Material World
Anna Ginsburg
STRANGE BEAST
United Kingdom
TV SERIES & SPECIALS
Special Distinction for a TV Series
BoJack Horseman “Fish Out Of Water”
Mike Hollingsworth
TORNANTE PRODUCTIONS, LLC
USA
Jury Award for a TV Series
The Man-Woman Case “Wanted”
Anaïs Caura
MY FANTASY / 2 P2L, FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS NOUVELLES ÉCRITURES
France
Cristal for a TV Production
Revolting Rhymes Part One
Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer, Bin-han To
MAGIC LIGHT PICTURES
United Kingdom
GRADUATION FILMS
Jury Distinction
Pas à pas
Charline Arnoux, Mylène Gapp, Léa Rubinstayn, Florian Heilig, Mélissa Roux
ESMA (ÉCOLE SUPÉRIEURE DES MÉTIERS ARTISTIQUES)
France
Jury Award
Summer’s Puke is Winter’s Delight
Sawako Kabuki
TAMA ART UNIVERSITY
Japan
Cristal for a Graduation Film
Sog
Jonatan Schwenk
HFG – HOCHSCHULE FÜR GESTALTUNG OFFENBACH AM MAIN
Germany
OFF-LIMITS SHORT FILMS
“Off-Limits” Award
Dix puissance moins quarante-trois seconde
FRANCIS
MIYU PRODUCTIONS
France
FEATURE FILMS
Audience Award
Loving Vincent
Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
TRADEMARK FILMS, BREAKTHRU PRODUCTIONS
Poland, United Kingdom
Jury Award
In This Corner of the World
Sunao Katabuchi
MAPPA (MARUYAMA ANIMATION PRODUCE PROJECT ASSOCIATION), GENCO, INC.
Japan
Cristal for a Feature Film
Lu Over the Wall
Masaaki Yuasa
SCIENCE SARU INC
Japan
SHORT FILMS
Audience Award
Grandpa Walrus
Lucrèce Andreae
CAÏMANS PRODUCTIONS
France
Jury Distinction
The Ogre
Laurène Braibant
PAPY3D PRODUCTIONS
France
The “Jean-Luc Xiberras” Award for a First Film
The Blissful Accidental Death
Sergiu Negulici
ABIS STUDIO
Romania
Jury Award
Kötü Kiz > Wicked Girl
Ayce Kartal
LES VALSEURS
France, Turkey
Cristal for a Short Film
Min Börda > The Burden
Niki Lindroth Von Bahr
MALADE AB
Sweden
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